The nursery

I’m so excited! My due date is in two days! Those 40 weeks went by so fast! We are very looking forward to meet our little one. Is it a girl? Or a boy? So exciting! In this post I will give you a short tour through the nursery with some DIY ideas.

Because we don’t know the gender of our little one, we used neutral colours for our nursery: white, mint, a touch of black combined with wood. But looking back, I know for sure that if we did know the gender we would not have done it very different. We’re just not that into pink or blue, but that’s personal of course. We wanted to give the wall a color and decided to paint half the wall, to create a sort of wainscoting and used the color Jade groen by Karwei. We wanted to do something special with the commode, so we gave the HEMNES commode by IKEA new fronts of underlayment. I wrote a blog about it, you can read it here. The lamp above the commode can be adjusted in height when necessary. Also we used a special lamp that doesn’t get hot, for safety reasons.

For some extra storage space besides the commode and the wardrobe closet, we wanted a a little closet/storage bench for toys and chose the STUVA storage bench by IKEA. Because the wall where it would stand against is white, we didn’t wanted a fully white one. We chose to use a underlayment front, just like we did with the commode. Personally I don’t always love the use of wood on wood, like the combination of the wooden drawer and the floor in this room. That’s why I searched for a solution to break this wood on wood thing. I finally made a pattern of ‘mountain tops’ and used white plastic foil. You can read the tutorial here.

I’m happy with the result. The foil sticks very well and almost gives the same effect as paint. A benefit of this plastic foil is that when I want something else, I can easily remove and replace it for another nice pattern!